Here's a brilliant idea for those who like to make their own pasta: a DIY pasta-drying system involving nothing more than a set of thin wooden dowels and an electric drill.

Such is the secret to Linda Scheibal's production of pasta in her small Napa Valley kitchen. The Calistoga, California, resident is on a mission to bring back the traditional art of making real pasta; she hand-cuts her own and air dries it in her kitchen. It was her husband, Tom, who hit upon the genius idea of drilling holes into the kitchen shelves and fitting them with wooden dowels, which are easily removed when the pasta has dried. Linda has gained a local following, so much so that a while back she launched her own line of pasta called Pasta Poetry.